Robert Peston

Here's my conversation with Nick Clegg.

Former deputy prime minister, former leader of the Lib Dems.

I mean, people describe you, I don't know if it's quite right, as a sort of number two meta left as Trump was taking power.

It's weird that Zuckerberg moves into Trumpian mode.

Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg leaves the company.

As you say, yeah.

Can't believe the events were connected.

Making the case for it was going to become difficult.

When it comes to essentially how people are going to feel and think that they can't think further than the next day, it is odd.

But it's, by the way, well, it is odd.

You're right.

I've always been so intrigued by these entrepreneurial characters for whom the money also, their wealth is the score.

I mean, some of the reasons they become so monstrously wealthy is because obviously they accumulate wealth well beyond what any of them could actually use, right?

The power that comes with that kind of wealth is distorting democracy.

There's no question about it.

With that, and one of the things that I spent a lot of time actually agonizing about is, you know, how we create the ecosystem so that we can again have world leading companies.

Now, you know, you and I.

Similar ish kind of generation.

You will remember that in the late 90s, early 2000s, the UK had a significant number of the world's biggest companies.

And now we more or less have zero.